Clock chiming and repeating mechanism.



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No. 763,899. PA'TENTED JUNE 28, 1904.

G. A. JACQUES.

CLOCK GHIMING AND REPEATING MECHANISM.

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UNITED STATEs Patented June 28, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. JACQUES, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO BAlVO AND DOTTER, A CORPORATION OF NElV JERSEY.

CLOCK CHIMING AND REPEATING MECHANISM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,899, dated June 28, 1904.

Application filed November 27, 1903. Serial No. 182,386. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLEs A. J AOQUES, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, New

York city, New York, have invented certain.

, peating the hour-strike or for striking chimes at special times Within the hour and this through the medium of the same driving mechanism.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face View of my improved mechanism in position for the hour-repeat with parts broken away for the sake of clearness. Fig. 1 is a perspective view'of the rack-hook H. Fig. 1" is a perspective view of the upper part of the rack B. Fig. 1 is a perspective view .of the lower portion of the lever L. Fig. 2 is an end view of Fig. 1 with parts omitted. Fig. 3 is a face view of part of the mechanism and shows the relation of theescapements and the warning-levers. Fig. 4 is a face view of part of the mechanism and shows the positions of certain parts when adapted to chime at stated intervals. Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of adetail. Fig. 6 is an enlarged view of other details.

Shaft 1 is a shaft operated from the clock mechanism to revolve once in the hour, and it carries a Wheel 2, which meshes with wheel 3, operating. the clock minute-hand. shown.) A wheel 4 gears with wheel 3 and carries a fourestepped cam 5, having a laterally-pro ecting pin 6.

A wheel 7 gears with wheel 4 and carries a toothed barrel 8 on its shaft-gearing, withand so related to a wheel 9, carrying a twelve-stepped cam 10, that the cam shall make a complete revolution once an hour. The cam 10 and wheel 9 and their shaft 11 are movable lengthwise of the shaft, a spring 13, Fig. 2, serving to keep them in a forward position, except when the lever L by its inclined end 14 pushes the shaft 11 back against the spring 13. This lever L is pivoted-at 7 3 to the frame and is shown partly in full lines and partly in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and in full lines in Fig. 2.- A rack R, pivoted at 15, Figs. 1 and 4, and provided with a tail lever 16, having pin 17, adapted to rest against the cam 10 when said cam is in its forward position, is adapted to control the hour-repeat or the chimes, as the case may be. A spring 17' Fig. 1, so acts upon this racklever as to always tend to press the lever to throw the rack to the left.

A rack-hook H, pivoted at 18, Fig. 1 and Fig. 4, is provided with a pin 19, which projects on both sides of the hook, (see Fig; 1,) the projection on the rear side being in the line of travel of the warning-lever 20, pivoted at 21. On the warning-lever 20 is pivoted a lever 22, the long end of which is operated four times within the hour by one or other of the four pins on the wheel 2. A pin 23 on an arm L of the lever L when in one position allows this lever 22 to turn idly on its pivot, as shown by dotted lines, Fig. 3; but when the lever L is moved to carry the pin 23 to the right, as shown in Fig. 4, the short end of the lever 22 then rests against this pin 23, so that when the next succeeding of the four pins on the wheel 2 acts upon the lever 22 it will raise the warning7lever-2O, which in turn will raise the rack-hook H, as shown by dotted lines, Fig. 4, to which the lever 22 is pivoted. The warning-lever 20 carries the usual stop 24 to engage with the pin 25, Fig. 3, of the train T, and also has a pin 26, adapted to be operated once in the hour by a bellcrank lever 27, pivoted at 7 2 and actuated by the pin 6 on the four-step earn 5.

is a gathering pallet or dog receiving rotary motion from the train T and provided with a tailpiece 31, which tailpiece is adapted to abut against and be stopped by a stud 32 on the rack R, Figs. 1 and 4, when the rack has reached its extreme right-hand position. The stud 32 projects on both sides of the rack (see Fig. 1") and acts upon the tail end of a warning-lever 64, Figs. 1 and 3, to be hereinafter described.

A pivoted stop-lever 33 is provided with a four-stepped outer end and a depending leg 34, adapted when in the position of Fig. 4 to rest on the four-stepped cam 5. (See Fig. 4.)

The pin-cylinder C for operating the levers 35, controlling the striking-hammers, (not shown,) is adapted to be longitudinally moved tothe left a short distance by a lever 36, pivoted at 37 and having an operating-arm 38 with a slotted end, in which works a pin 39 on the back of the lever L, Fig. 1. A spring 40 returns the cylinder C to the position of Fig. 1, where one lever 35* only is opposite one row y of pins on the cylinder 0. When the cylinder is moved to the left by the lever 36, all levers 35 and 35* will be moved into the paths of pin-rows w on the cylinder C for operation by those pins. The cylinder G is provided at its right-hand end with elongated gear-teeth 41, meshing with a crown-wheel 42 on an upright shaft 43, Fig. 2, receiving its motion from a pair of bevel-gears 44 45, rotated by the train T.

The mechanisms just described are to enable the selection of the hour-repeat or the chimes, as the case may be. For the hourstrike I use a known form of device, as follows: A lever 46, connected to the hour-striking hammer, is operated by pins 47, Fig. 1,

on a pin-wheel of a driving-train T, which also rotates the gathering-pallet 48 and the wheel 49, carrying a pin 50, Fig. 3, for engagement with the warning-levers 57 and 64. A rack R, having atailpiece 51, is provided with a stud 51*, Fig. 1, which rests against a snail-cam 52, turning with a star-wheel 53, the latter being turned one notch every hour by a stud 54 on the wheel 3. a stop-pin 55 for the gathering-pallet 48, and there is a spring 56 to throw the rack when released to the left. A warning-lever 57, pivoted at 58, Figs. 1 and 3, has a depending leg 60, adapted to be operated once an hour by a pin 61 on the Wheel 3 to bring the stoppiece 59 on the lever into the path of the pin 50 on the wheel 49. A rack-hook 62, Fig. 1, having a stud 63 projecting on both sides of the hook, is operated by the warning-lever 57 striking the stud 63. A warning-lever 64, pressed by a spring 71, has a stop 74, Fig. 3, to normally block the pin 50, except when the rack R lifts the right-hand end of the lever 64 by the stud 32, Fig. 1, to depress the stop 74 at the left, Fig'. 3, out of the path of the pin 50, which is accomplished upon the movement of the stud 32 to the right of the position shown in Fig. 3.

65 is a lever pivoted at 75 and adapted to raise both rack-hooks 62 and H, Fig. 1, at any time to release both racks R and R to cause '3 their operating mechanisms to repeat at any time the last preceding strike.

66 is a lever pivoted at 76 and adapted to be The rack R also has in that figure, and thereby act on the warning-lever 64, lowering the left-hand end of the latter to interpose the stop 74 into the path of the pin 50, Fig. 3, and at the same time to prevent the release of the rack R, thus entirely silencing the clock.

When the mechanism of the clock is adjusted for repeating the hour-strike at the half-hour, with the parts in the positions of Fig. 1, the time of day is shown to be just before one oclock, as will be obvious by the position of the pin 51* adjacent to the step No. 1 of snail-cam 52 and the position of pin 54 of the gear-wheel 3, which must make almost an entire revolution before operating the snail-cam 52 to place step N0. 2 in line with the pin 51*. The pin 6 on the fourstepped cam 5 will also have to be operated more than a half-revolution before liberating the repeating mechanism through lever 16. As the wheel 3 rotates the pin 61 thereon operates the warning-lever 57, Fig. 3, to move its stop-piece 59 into the path of the pin 50 of. the pin-wheel 49 to prevent its rotation, and the lever 57 then releases the rack-hook 62 to allow the rack R to fall to the left under the action of spring 56. VVarning-lever 57 will that its stop 74 is out of the path of the pin 1 50. Consequently the gathering-pallet 48 will take up enough teeth on the rack R and cause a pin 47 of the pin-wheel to operate the striking-lever 46 once because under control of step No. 1 of cam 52, and the clock will strike one oclook. At about this same time one of the four pins on the wheel 2 has raised the lever 22 but idly, because the short end of this lever then is free of the pin 23. After striking the rack R is returned to the position shown in Fig. 1. Before 1.30 oclook has come around the pin 6 of the cam 5 will lift bell-crank lever 27, Fig. 4, so as to raise warning-lever 20 into the path of the pin 25 of the pin-wheel ofthe train T, preventing its rotation. At the same time the rack'hook H is raised to allow the rack R to fall to the left, its pin 17 then striking against step No. 1 on the cam 10. At 1.30 oclook the bell-crank lever 27 drops from the pin 6 and allows the warning-lever 20 to drop and release the train T. The gatheringpallet 30 thereupon rotates, and the cylinder 0 also rotates far enough to strike one by the right-hand lever 35*, but on a different tube or bell than that for the hour-strike of course. Then the gathering-pallet 30 will stop the train T by abutting against the projection 32 on the rack R. The operation just described will be repeated at succeeding hours, the cams 52 and 10 of course being moved one step for each hour, so, that the successive steps of the cams successive hours.

The operation of the mechanism for chimes is similarto that shown in Lindauers United States Patent No. 267,092. The hour-striking mechanism operates in the same manner as I have described; but the stepped stop-lever 33 and the pin 23 on the lever L'occupy the positions shown in Fig. 1 while the cylinder C is moved to the left by the lever 36 38, so that every lever 35 and 35* will be under the control of a row of pins :0. This is accomplished by manually throwing the upper arm of the lever L to the left, carrying lever 36 with it, so that the arm'70, Figs. 1 and 1, of the lever L will be moved down to. the right to drop the lever 33 and at the same time to move the incline 14:, Figs. 2 and l to push the cam away from the pin 17, so that this cam will no longer act as the limiting-stop to the arm 51 of the rack R. The lower part of this lever L and of the levers 66 and 65 I have shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 in order that the operation of the parts otherwise hidden by'them will be more plain; but I have illustrated the lower end of the lever in perspective in Fig. 1. The positions of the parts as shown in Fig. 4 are those just before 1.15 oclock. One of the pins on the wheel 2 will now raise the lever 22 (which now has its tailpiece in contact with the pin 23 of the lever L) and will cause the warning-lever to be elevated to stop the pin 25 on the wheel of the train T and also to lift the rack-hook H, allowing the rack R to fall back against the top step of the lever 33, so that the warning-lever 20 when it drops at 1.15 oclock sharp on the release of the lever 22 will release the train T and allow the cylinder (1 to rotate to cause a few musical notes to be struck by the levers 35. At 1.30 oclock the same operation will take place, except that the stepped stop-lever 33 will have been raised, so that the second notch will then act as a stop for the rack R and the period of chimes will be slightly prolonged. At 1.45 oclock the third step of cam and stoplever will come into action; but just prior to two oelock the cam 52 will be turned one notch by the pin 54 striking the star-wheel, and one of the four pins on the wheel 2 will lift the warning-lever 20 and release the rack R, which allows the spring 71 to move the warning-lever 64c to block the pin 50 and gathering-pallet 48 and train T. Immediately upon the release of the warning-lever 20 the pin 61 on the wheel 3 will raise the warninglever 57 and rack-hook 62 to release the rack B. When the warning-lever 20 has released the train T, the gathering-pallet 30 will move the rack R forward to the right and chimes will be struck. At the termination of the chimes, caused by the gathering-pallet 3O striking the projection 32 on one side of the rack, the projection 32 on the other side of the rack will lift the warning-lever 64 to release the train and location of the pins on the wheel 3.

I claim as my invention 1. A clock having an hour-striking mechanism in combination with an hour-repeating mechanism and a chiming mechanism, and means for alternatively throwing out of action one or other of the repeating and chiming mechanisms, substantially as described.

2. A striking and chiming clock, having an hour-striking mechanism in combination with an hour-repeating mechanism and a chiming mechanism, a single driving-train for the latter two mechanisms and means for alternatively throwing out of action one or the other of the repeating and chimingmechanisms, substantially as described.

3. A striking and chiming clock, having an hour repeating mechanism and a chiming mechanism, a single driving-train and a lever to simultaneously throw one mechanism into action and the other out of action.

4. A striking and chiming'clock, having a chiming mechanism and an hour-repeating mechanism, an adjustable cylinder and levers for the hour-repeat and chimes, a rack, gathering-pallet, a cam to limit the movement of the rack variable distances, a warning-lever, and means for operating the aforesaid elements, in combination with means to throw the said cam out of action, and at the same time to move the cylinder, and a stop-lever adapted to be passed into the path of said rack, substantially as described.

5. A striking and chiming clock, having a chiming mechanism and an hour-repeating mechanism, an adjustable cylinder and levers for the hour-repeat and chimes, a rack,gathering-pallet, a cam to limit the movement of the rack variable distances, a warning-lever, and means for operating the aforesaid elements, in combination with a stop lever, a lever L adapted to move the cylinder and to throw the cam out of action, and to operate the stop-lever, a warning-lever and rack-hook, a pin controlled by lever L, a lever for operating said warning-lever when the pin is in one position, but not operating it when in a different position, and means for operating said lever which operates the warning-lever from the clock mechanism, substantially as described.

6. A striking and chiming clock, having a chiming mechanism and an hour-repeating mechanism, an adjustable cylinder and levers forthe hour-repeat and chimes, a rack, gathering-pallet, a cam to limit the movement of the rack variable distances, a warning-lever for operating the aforesaid elements, in combination with a stop-lever, a lever L adapted to move the cylinder and to throw the cam out of action, and to operate the stop lever, a warning-lever and rack-hook, a pin controlled by lever L, a lever for operating said warning-lever when the pin is in one position, but not operating it when in a different position, and means for operating said lever which operates the warning-lever from the clock mechanism, and a lever 27 adapted to be operated in all positions of the lever L, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES A. JACQUES.

Witnesses:

F. WARREN WRIGHT, HUBERT HoWsoN. 

